The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Pampilioun : Pavillioun in Leland's list; from Pavelion, near Mantes, in Normandy. Thorold de Papelion is on the Dives Roll. He witnessed William the Conqueror's confirmation charter to the church of Durham; and is mentioned among those present at a great Council held at Westminster in 1082 (Mon. Angl.). Ralph Papelion, in 1214, was elected Abbot of Westminster. Halnadus or Havenald de Papelion was a benefactor of Selby Abbey, and a witness to the Bishop of Lincoln's grant to Thorney in Cambridgeshire (Ibid.). "Dominus Rydel Papillon" and Nicholas Papilioun of Lincolnshire are entered in the Hundred Rolls of Edward I.; and Geoffrey Pampilon was "one of the Procurators appointed by Simon Abbot of Croyland to appear on his behalf in the Parliament at York, 16 Ed. II."—Palgrave's Parliamentary Writs. Then, again, we meet with the family in Kent and Sussex; three of the name, Henry, Thomas, and Laurence in Kent; Roger, in both counties; and William, in Sussex only; about 1272.—Rotuli Hundredorum. The two latter were seated at Bosham, where Roger held his land "by the service of carrying two white capons to our Lord the King, as often as he should pass by the gate of the said Roger." William, "one of King Edward I.'s faithful servants," was recommended by him to the Abbot of Leicester for a corrody in 1303.

The Papillons now of Crowhurst, in the same county, are of an entirely different origin. They belong to the French Huguenot families that came over to England at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, and acquired Crowhurst through a Pelham heiress.